RUGGED, ROBUST,

AND RELIABLE
PERFORMANCE

EVERY DAY

Altus HPLC

CHROMATOGRAPHY FOR

THE WORK YOU DO

NOW EVERYONE IN

YOUR LAB IS A

CHROMATOGRAPHER
Altus HPLC

Food
The food, beverages, and nutraceuticals
we consume come to us from all over the
world. So ensuring that the global food
supply is genuine, unadulterated, and free of
contaminants is a critical undertaking. The
Altus HPLC, running Waters Empower3
software, enables your lab to better meet
stringent FDA, EFSA, and impending FSMA
requirements for food safety, without
additional investment.

Environmental
Safeguarding the environment is important
to all of us. The Altus HPLC solution delivers
powerful integration algorithms that
effectively detect and analyze low-level and
complex sample results. Peak detection using
a curvature approach is more sensitive than
traditional integration.

Industrial/Fine Chemicals
In many different ways, advanced materials
chemicals are playing a large and growing
part in our lives. And government regulations
are keeping pace. The Altus HPLC solution
can help lower your operating costs by
standardizing your workflows and platforms,
all while improving efficiency, data quality,
and lab productivity.

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Todays laboratories want more from their liquid chromatography

system: Higher performance. Better reliability. More consistent
and comprehensive analytical workflows. And most of all, more
predictable and reproducible results. At the same time, you want
less complexity, hassle, and guesswork from those you count on for
service and support.
More of what youre looking for in chromatography, and less of
everything else: Thats the Altus HPLC platform.
Based on proven technology at work in thousands of labs
worldwide, the Altus HPLC delivers integrated fluidics in a lowdispersion design, with excellent reproducibility, peak capacity and
resolution, and exceptional results. Optimized detection choices
deliver extremely low detection limits for all the applications
you need most. And productivity-boosting automation features
everything from simple system startup to automated sample
management to tool-free maintenance ensure that everyone in
your lab can run analyses quickly and easily, taking full advantage of
the Altus HPLC systems many strengths.
Put that together with the leading chromatography data software
in the business and the industrys best, most knowledgeable
service and support organization, and you can now run your
chromatography with the utmost confidence.

WITH CHROMATOGRAPHY
THIS GOOD, THE RESULTS

JUST FLOW
The Altus HPLC platform is built to deliver robust, trouble-free operation perfect for everyday
analysis and for meeting stringent and ever-changing industry regulations and requirements.
Bigger sample capacity

Built-in, integrated fluidics

The Altus HPLC system can handle up to 120 standard-size vials

in five separate sample carousels. So whether youre running
a quick one-off sample or a series of methods from different
analysts, your sample queues are simple to set up and run. And
the sample environment can be temperature controlled and is
ideal for light-sensitive samples as well.

The Altus HPLC systems integrated solvent and samplemanagement functions deliver consistent performance from
system to system, for highly reproducible results. Automatic,
continuous solvent compressibility provides accurate and precise
solvent delivery and reproducible retention times, regardless of
solvent.

Easy to use

Whats more, the systems fluidics design ensures that

accidental leakage and spills can be managed quickly and
safely. And you decide needle wash duration, with no wash or
rinse vials making sample-carryover issues a thing of the past.

The Altus HPLC system's large built-in, easy-to-navigate user

interface enables your scientists to take full advantage of its fast
system setup procedures with SystemPREP, for quick, onetouch walkup functionality. SystemPREP automatically readies
the system to run samples ideal for daily startups, when
changing solvents, or after prolonged periods of
system inactivity.
The systems solvent management feature also degasses and
accurately blends up to four chromatographic solvents for
pulse-free, effortless delivery. Whats more, PerformancePLUS
check-valve technology maximizes system uptime.
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Thermal management
The column heating option uses integrated forced-air
recirculation, making for an exceptionally stable column
environment. With the passive column heating option, you
have the confidence that your sample will be at the same
temperature as the column.

KEEPING YOUR

DETECTION
OPTIONS OPEN

The Altus HPLC system delivers a full range of

sensitive detection options everything you need
to analyze whatever compounds come your way.
Whether you use each singly or in combination
with other methods, youll be able to glean more
information per run than ever before.

UV/Vis Detector

Refractive Index Detector

A sensitive, flexible dual-wavelength absorbance detector, with

the ability to identify and quantify low-level impurities in the
same run as the analyte of interest.

An effective tool for isocratic quantification of components with

little or no UV absorption just the thing for analyzing and
quantifying food sugars.

Photodiode Array (PDA) Detector

Multifluorescence Detector

Advanced optical detection with exceptional chromatographic

and spectral sensitivity perfect for performing peak-purity
analysis, even under extreme conditions.

A great solution for environmental monitoring applications

in which increased sensitivity and maximum selectivity are
required.

The Altus A-10 UV is the most sensitive and versatile

wavelength detector available for HPLC.

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The full line of Altus A-10 detectors are fully

controlled via Empower 3 software for all
chromatographic and spectral processing functions.

The Altus A-10 FL detector is ideal for quantifying

low concentrations of naturally fluorescent or
derivatized compounds.

WHAT BRINGS US

TOGETHER

SETS US APART
Chromatography data software with an edge
Chromatography data software (CDS) has one simple
purpose: to deliver the highest degree of confidence in your
results. And simply put, Empower 3 software brings it all
together. The most versatile CDS in the business, its also the
easiest to use, delivering extraordinary results with minimal
training, workflow reengineering, or additional software
modules to support new instruments or techniques.
Empower 3 software also provides customizable reports,
integrated custom fields and calculations, and online help,
too, while providing industry-leading security and
data integrity.

All the functionality you need and more

Empower 3 delivers all the functionality you need, with
unique interface options that are geared to each individual
user in your lab, novice and expert alike. Once your users
log in, theyre greeted with the interface thats appropriate
to their tasks and skill levels.

Workflow-driven, user-centric
QuickStart interface
The single-window Empower 3 QuickStart interface allows all
your users to perform tasks that match their skill level, with no
confusion. You can develop new methods, including PDA and
MS data extraction, customize reports, manage data, and receive
results and notifications by email.
The QuickStart interface streamlines the collection, processing,
reviewing, and reporting of chromatographic results. Capabilities
provided through the interface include:

Instrument control and data acquisition

Peak detection (including the ApexTrack peak detection

algorithm for consistent results)

Quantitation

GPC processing and calculations

Data review

Data searching

Mass spectrometry

Custom reporting

The software features the ApexTrack peak detection algorithm,

enhancing peak integration capabilities, with excellent detection
of poorly resolved or low-level peaks on noisy or sloping
baselines, so you can process data efficiently with little or no
manual intervention required. Plus, it controls a wide range of
multivendor systems HPLC, UHPLC, IC, GC, CE, and more
allowing you to maximize your investment in CDS technology.

The right accessories, consumables methods

and application support
Whether youre conducting routine raw materials confirmation
or performing the most demanding applications, our top
priority is to help improve efficiency, control costs, and optimize
your analysis. We have the consumables and accessories for
applications in atomic spectroscopy, materials characterization,
and chromatography and mass spectrometry, and our
comprehensive portfolio of solutions is designed to ensure you
receive accurate, repeatable results on time, every time
throughout the lifetime of your instrument.

Everything you need under one roof

One software package for multiple

requirements
Empower 3 software enables you to manage data generated by
all your instrumentation, plus run mission-specific applications,
including optional method development and validation,
integrated chemical structures, and polymer analysis.

When you engage with us, youre benefiting from multivendor

service and support from the absolute best in the business.
Thousands of certified technicians in the field, who are familiar
with all the techniques you employ. More than 400,000
multivendor assets under our care. And operations in more than
120 countries across the globe.
Analytic method services, asset procurement and disposition,
business intelligence, qualification and validation, lab relocation,
and, of course, instrument service and repair all these services
and more, plus a deep-seated knowledge of the business
requirements of our customers, uniquely qualify us to help
empower your science and drive your business.

Brownlee SPP Superficially Porous Particle Technology

With Brownlee SPP columns, you can achieve sharper peaks and faster separation results
without worrying about high backpressure or compromising column longevity. Unlike
other columns, Brownlee SPP columns use 2.7 m particles comprised of a thin outer shell
of high-quality porous silica fused to a solid inner core. This advanced design allows for a
shorter diffusion path, keeps backpressure to a minimum, and improves column efficiency.

Certified LC Clean Vial, Cap, and Septa Kits

We have a variety of LC-certified vials, caps, and septa made from the finest materials to
ensure that you experience accurate and dependable measurements. Our vials are made
from Type 1 Borosilicate glass, which conforms to all USP, JP, and EP requirements. Each
product is manufactured using strict quality-control standards and is packed in a clean
environment to ensure that it arrives contaminant-free.

Want more from your LC/GC solutions? Youre in good company.

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